FLOWERING PLANTS. 59 
mentary lines to Queen Elizabeth in A/tdsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2, 
and describes how Cupid’s shaft fell 
‘Upon a little western flower,— 
Before, milk-white, now purple with love’s wound,— 
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.’ 
The name Heartsease was applied by the old writers to the Wall- 
flower as well as to the Pansy. ‘Turner, in his ames of Herbes 
1548), calls the former plant ‘ Hertes ease or wal Gelefloure.’ 
Viola nana, Godr. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Rare and local, but abundant where it occurs. Sandhills at Lan- 
cresse by the Great Cromlech. Also on the sandhills round Rousse 
Martello Tower. This minute Violet is usually in full flower at the 
middle of April, but after a mild winter it may be found in blossom 
early in March, and I have seen flowers as late as June 12th. In 
dry seasons, however, as in 1892, not a vestige of the plant can be 
detected so late. Some of the plants at Rousse had almost white 
flowers. V. mana occurs rather commonly on the north-west coast 
of Normandy, and has been found in Jersey. 
(Viola odorata, L., is recorded in 4/. Sarn. as occurring in 
‘several parts of Guernsey,’ but this is certainly an error. It 
has never been found since, and is not mentioned in Gosselin’s 
old list.) 
(Drosera rotundifolia, L. Common Sundew. In Major H. 
Smith’s annotated copy of the /¥o/a Sarnica the following note 
occurs among some carefully written entries on a blank page: 
‘ Drosera rotundtfolia.—Myr. Butler informed me that in 1812 he 
found it in the Grande Mare in two places. I am inclined to think 
it has now become extinct, as I have often looked for it, but without 
success.’ As the Sundew is fairly common in Normandy, and also 
occurs in Jersey, it is not improbable that at one time it existed in 
Guernsey also; but there is no mention of it in Gosselin’s list.) 
FRANKENIACEAE. 
*Frankenia laevis, L. Smooth Sea Heath. 
Extinct. 
The name given in Gosselin’s list is confirmed by a specimen 
still preserved in his herbarium ; and the plant is also recorded in 
Fl. Sarn. as found in St. Sampson’s marshes by W. Christy. It is 
almost certain, however, that every trace of it has now disappeared 
owing to extensive draining and building-over of large tracts in the 
Braye du Vale and the surrounding districts. The latest evidei:ce 
